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NDUSTRY
igital HealthERTICAL
ersonal Health Monitoring Devices
ECHNOLOGY
ellspec is a company that provides
redictive intelligence about food.
brings together NIR spectroscopy
nd deep learning in a revolution-
ry system that can tell whats in
ny food. Tellspec filed a U.S. patent
pplication on August 5, 2013, for
s method of analyzing and cor-
elating spectra, identifying
amples and their ingredients,
nd displaying related
ersonalized information.
XECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
abel Hoffmann
EO and Founder
ason Coulls
P Software
ail Gannon
P Strategy
ark Bloore
enior Software Architect
azanin Samadifard
Machine Learning Manager
DVISORY BOARD
ouis Florence, Ph.D.
nance Advisor
r. Rafael Grossmann, M.D.
ealth Advisor
athaniel Amsellem
uropean Investor Advisor
arry R. Wilson
orth America Investment Advisor
ames Tjan
ood Science Advisor
mon Mou
sia Investment Advisor
OTAL PEOPLE INVOLVED
5
ONTACT
abel Hoffmann, CEO & Founder
16 666 5028
ellspec.com
WHATS IN YOUR FOOD?
You want to know whats in your food before you buy it and before you eat it because the quality of your health depends what you eat. Many foods contain ingredients that you want to avoid, such as allergens, refined carbohydrates and trans fats, it can be difficult to know whether these are in your food. How can you tell how many calories are in a serving of home-cookfood? Food labels can give us some information, if theyre available, but they are not always intelligible and some ingrediemay not even be reported.
Tellspec provides you with the most relevant and useful information about what is in your food so you can make an informdecision that better matches your dietary needs. Tellspecs food sensor scans food at the molecular level; from that scan, analysis engine detects allergens, calories, macronutrients, and sugars and provides relevant nutritional information such as glycemic index. Tellspec also helps avoid known allergens or narrow down potential food intolerances.
Each time you scan food products, you not only learn about whats in your food, you also help others learn whats in their foTellspecs food analysis system compiles all the data analyzed and learns from each scan, making the analysis more accuraand more detailed with each scan.
OPPORTUNITY
Tellspecs technology enables those that who desire weight loss to automatically track their calories and identify food sensiities by simply scanning their food. It also helps diabetic or pre-diabetic patients to analyze their diet, and in particular tracalories and carbohydrates as well as fibre, so they can adjust their insulin doses accordingly.
Global diabetes market is expected to reach $44.70 bill ion in 2015, compound annual growth rate of 7.5%. The W.H.O. forecathat the worlds diabetic population will reach 366 million by 2030. The market for food allergy and intolerance is estimated Global Industry Analysts to be US$26.5bn by 2017. This market has grown at 18.5% over the past decade.
NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION IN YOUR POCKET
Tellspecs mobile application includes a searchable online database of authoritative information on thousands of food ingredieand their impact on health. This encyclopedia is the educational companion to the Tellspec food sensor and can be used wout the actual scanner, making Tellspec mobile application a powerful new tool for personal and institutional health educatio
MANAGEMENT
Isabel Hoffmannis an executive with experience and success in leading and scaling early-stage businesses. In the past years, Isabel has founded eight companies in the fields of preventive medicine, genetics, technology, and education in the NoAmerican, European, and South American markets. She has negotiated strategic investments with groups such as CBS Cor
ration and Mitsubishi International, and raised equity investment and convertible debenture notes. She was also the main stragic negotiator on several business acquisitions, including a US$28M acquisition of Corel Multimedia business division. Her maawards include: Ernst and Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year (1996) and MacLeans Honor Role for Canadian Excellence (199
Jason Coulls, VP Software, is a software engineer who has worked in the mobile space since its inception in the late 1990having progressed through Palm OS, Blackberry, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, and now iOS. His biggest contributionconsumer mobile software comes from working on Clear Channels iHeartRadio product (now called iHeartMedia) supportover 4+ million users.
Gail Gannon, VP Strategy, is a seasoned healthcare industry entrepreneur, well connected to KOLs in private and public stors, and she has a strong reputation for conducting due diligence and negotiating agreements with entities ranging from staups to Fortune 500 companies to global health agencies, e.g. OneWorld Health-PATH, Gates Foundation.
Mark Bloore, Senior Software Architect, has over 30 years of experience in software design and development in many arefrom applications to systems to API creation, from microcontrollers to iOS apps.
Nazanin Samadifard, Machine Learning Manager, is an accomplished scientist with extensive knowledge and experiencemultidisciplinary research, programming, machine learning, and data analytics. She has a M.Sc. degree in Physics from tUniversity of Ottawa and M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto.